AQA GCSE Psychology Paper 1: Cognition and behaviour November 2020 question paper 8182/1

Which is the best example of information that would be stored as procedural memory?

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Which of the following statements about short-term memory (STM) is true?

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Evaluate the multi-store model of memory.

Describe Bartlett’s ‘War of the Ghosts’ study.

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Use your knowledge of the theory of reconstructive memory to explain why each eyewitness gave different descriptions of the same robber.

Explain one weakness of the reconstructive theory of memory.

You have been asked to investigate the effect of context on the accuracy of memory.

Describe how you would design an experiment to do this.

You need to include the following information in your answer:

• what you would ask participants to do and what data you would collect

• one extraneous variable that could affect your results and how you could control it

• the results you would expect to find from your experiment.

Which two of the following are binocular depth cues?

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Which is the best explanation for the visual illusion known as the Ames room?

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Briefly evaluate Gibson’s direct theory of perception.

Sketch the Müller-Lyer illusion.

Outline how psychologists would explain the Müller-Lyer illusion.

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A teacher carried out an experiment to investigate factors that can affect perception. She divided her class into two groups: A and B. Group A was shown nine different pictures of rabbits. Group B was shown nine different pictures of ducks.

Both groups were then shown Figure 1 and were asked what animal they saw.

The results are shown in Table 1.

Table 1: The type of animal seen by participants

Calculate the percentage of students in Group B who saw Figure 1 as a rabbit.

State your answer using two significant figures and show your workings.

Which of the following is the correct fraction of Group A who saw Figure 1 as a duck?

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Use your knowledge of one factor that affects perception to explain the results shown in Table 1 (on page 10).

Outline how culture can affect perception. Refer to both Marc and José’s comments in your answer.

Explain one strength of using laboratory experiments in research.

Sienna is planning her holiday. Which part of the brain plays a key role in this activity?

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Matt is looking at a drawing of how castles were designed. Which one of the following learning styles is he using?

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According to Piaget’s theory of cognitive development, during which stage will a child first start to look for something that has been hidden from view?

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Outline one example of how Mr Taylor can use praise to improve Jana’s learning.

Outline one example of how Mr Taylor can increase Jana’s self-efficacy.

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Use your knowledge of both negative schemas as an explanation for depression and Dweck’s Mindset theory of learning to explain why these two students responded in different ways.

Briefly evaluate both negative schemas as an explanation for depression and Dweck’s Mindset theory.

Hughes investigated egocentrism in his ‘policeman doll study’. Describe this study.

Evaluate Hughes’ ‘policeman doll study’.

Which two of the following are commonly understood to be advantages of case studies?

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Which one of the following statistics is calculated by finding the difference between the smallest and largest values in a set of data?

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Outline what is meant by independent groups and repeated measures.

Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of both of these types of experimental design.

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Total score: ______

Outline one strength of using a stratified sample when conducting research.

Give a definition of both qualitative and quantitative data.

Quantitative data

When collecting information about mental well-being, explain why collecting qualitative data rather than quantitative data may increase the validity of the data collected by the researcher.

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Table 3: The average daily exercise and mental well-being score for each participant

Identify the mode for the average daily exercise scores shown in Table 3.

Calculate the median for the average mental well-being scores shown in Table 3.

Use the graph paper to sketch a scatter diagram to show the results shown in Table 3.

Provide a suitable title and labels for your diagram.

Identify the type of correlation the researcher has found between exercise and mental well-being.

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